INSEAD MBA Special Info Event Report

Time

18:30-22:00, June 9^th Friday, 2006

Venue

INSEAD Singapore Campus

Staffing

Doris Sohmen-Pao, Director, MBA Programme

Gopika Spaenlé, Assistant Director of Marketing, MBA Programme

Matthew Bidwell, Assistant Professor of Strategy & Management

Dr Swissdy Miyashita, Manager, Career Services

Special guests

5 current INSEAD MBA students include 2 American Koreans (couple), 1 White American, 1 British, 1 Mauritian Chinese

Participants

70 (very diverse backgrounds from all nationalities, some even flew over )

Info channel

The on-campus Special Info Events are held 5 times a year on both campuses. They are usually attended by 50-150 people & longer (about three and a half hours) than regular On-Campus Open Info Sessions.
                        Online registration throughhttp://www.insead.edu/mba/offevents/index.cfm?fuseaction=oncampus
                                

Agenda

6.30pm   Registration & Welcome Drinks

7.00pm  Welcome & Introduction to the INSEAD MBA Programme

Doris Sohmen-Pao - Director, MBA Programme 

Gopika Spaenlé - Assistant Director of Marketing, MBA Programme

7.30pm   Class Discussion

Matthew Bidwell - Assistant Professor of Strategy & Management

Case: Science & Politics of Global Environmental Change

8.15pm   Latest Career Trends & MBA Career Services    

Dr Swissdy Miyashita -        Manager, Career Services

8.30pm   Admissions Criteria

Gopika Spaenlé - Assistant Director of Marketing, MBA Programme

8.45pm   Current INSEAD Participants Panel Question & Answer

9:15pm  Networking & Cocktail

Logistics

* Name tag + Info package (Agenda, a very comprehensive booklet on “How to finance your MBA” with all the available resources & INSEAD MBA scholarships listed, even with testimonials, INSEAD MBA briefing, ball-pen)

* Apple juice, Ice water Brownie, Fried prawn dumpling for welcome drinks

* Settings: Amphitheatre with big screen, 4 combined blackboards

* Wines & Soft drinks + seafood snack + vegetarian pizza

* Staff dress code: business

* CI colour: Teal

Slogan

INSEAD: The Business
                                        School for the World

Highlights

* 2 fully functional campuses in France & Singapore, alliance with Wharton, so you may study in 3 continents during the 10-month course

* INSEAD is truly global, from the staff, the students profile, the language requirement & the experiences, e.g. the Assistant Marketing Director is an American graduated from IMD.

* Even the info event was very fast-paced & well prepared. No break at all. The young professor facilitated the case discussion nicely and gave his valuable conclusion.

* Their biggest asset is the alumni network & their loyalty. The 5 very active current students told it all. They’re very helpful in answering all kinds of questions and stayed very late after 10 pm.

* Career service is great with more than 2,000 job postings last year for the merely 900 students, most of which had a successful career change.

Programme

Structure

Admission Criteria

1.       International Outlook

2.       Leadership Potential

3.       Academic Excellence

4.       Contribution to the INSEAD experience

Class Profile

* Diverse and truly international student body. Currently 73 nationalities represented with no one nationality more than 12% of the class.

* Average age is 29; range on campus now is 23 – 38

* Participants benefit greatly from each other's experience, The average is 5.7 years, but quite a broad range - the middle 80% is 3.5 to 8.5 years.

* Average GMAT on campus this year is 702.

* 61% of the current class are exchanging campus.

Tuition fees

Euro 45,000 / 10 months for 2006 – 2007 intakes